Discuss everything here about tonights big game between Manchester United and Bareclona at Uniteds home Old TRafford. This Champions League Semi-Final second leg kicks off at 7:45 p.m. (B.S.T.) on Tuesday 29th April 2008. The game will be live on this site, just check the homepage for streams etc! Now for my preview before the match.

RECENT FORM: Last time out for United was on Saturday in the Premier League. They were away to Chelsea and lost a great game 2-1. Barca last played on Saturday in La Liga, going down 2-0 at Deportivo. Back to United, and their last home game was on Sunday 13th April 2008. They were at home to Arsenal in the Premier League and won 2-1. Continuing on with United, and they last played in Europe on Wednesday 23rd April 2008. They were away at Bareclona in the first leg of this tie and drew 0-0. Barca also last played in Europe when they faced United at the Camp Nou. However, Uniteds last european home game was on Wednesday 9th April 2008 when they were at home to Roma in the Quarter-Final Second Leg. They won the game 1-0 and 3-0 on aggregate. Finaly. Barcelona's last away game in Europe was on Tuesday 1st April 2008. They were away at Schalke and won 1-0 in the first leg of the Champions League Quarter-Final. Barca went on to win the tie 2-0 on aggregate.

TEAM NEWS: United hope that Wayne Rooney and Nemanja Vidic will be fit for tonight, but that is Uniteds only real injury worries. As for Barca, and they weclome back Captain Carles Puyol who will replace the suspended Rafael Marquez in defence. In addition, Midfielder Yaya Toure (ankle) is a doubt and Edmilson could replace him. Here are the Squads:

Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Neville, Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Silvestre, Evra, 0'Shea, Ronaldo, Scholes, Anderson, Hargreaves, Carrick, Giggs, Park, Fletcher, Rooney, Tevez, Kuszczak, Pique, Welbeck.

Still Searching for Barca Squad

PREVIOUS MEETINGS: The last meeting between the pair came ion wednesday 23rd April 2008, when in the first leg of this tie the pair drew 0-0 at the Camp Nou. The last competitive meeting between the pair at Old Trafford came on 16th September 1998, when the pair met in the Champions League group stages. The teams shared a brillaint 3-3 draw.

MATCH FACTS: FC Barcelona and Manchester United have met eight times in a European club competition. Both clubs have won twice and four matches were drawn. The goal difference is 15-13 in favour of the Spaniards. Barca however have been knocked out by a British club in three of the last four seasons. And Man Utd have hosted spanish teams 16 times and have only been beaten twice. The Champions Cup, Cup Winners Cup and Champions League winners face Barca who have won the Champions Cup, Champions League, 4 cup winners cups, 3 Fairs cups and 2 European super cups. This is the 13th time United have reached a European semi-final, but they have been knocked out on 9 of those occasions. With Barca and this is the 23rd time they have reached a european semi-final progressing 14 times from them games. Both teams are unbeaten in Europe this season and United have not lost in Europe since last years semi-final with AC Milan. Barca are unbeaten in 12 in this competition and both teams have kept clean sheets in their last four european games.

ASHVALE32'S VIEW: This is going to be a very tight game. Yes, Barca have been struggling in the league but they are still unbeaten in Europe this year. They had the most possesion in the first leg, yet United had the best chance with Ronaldo's missed penalty. If Barca score, United have to score twice, so only 0-0 will send it to extra time. I can see a Barca early goal stunning Old Trafford, but the red devils will probably shine through if key players perform for the reds.
MY PREDICTION: 2-1 (agg: 2-1)

to be continued

This post was last modified: 04-29-2008 02:38 PM by Ashvale32.

There just something telling me that Barca will snatch it... however id prefer it if the English team went through.

First time ive ever wanted united to win Just because i want an all-English final.

Man Utd: Van der Sar, Evra, Hargreaves, Ferdinand, Brown, Ronaldo, Park Carrick, Nani, Scholes, Tevez.

Bench: Kuszczak, Anderson, Giggs, O'Shea, Fletcher, Silvestre, Welbeck


Barcelona: Valdes, Milito, Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta, Eto'o, Zambrotta, Messi, Deco, Abidal, Toure.

Bench: José Pinto, Gudjohnsen, Henry, Edmílson, Sylvinho, Thuram, Bojan

Vidic and Rooney didn't even make the bench. Going be a tough game but at least the line up is more attack minded than the first leg.

Scholes... great goal

Thats what i like to seeeee

lucky Man Utd cunts, oh well good lucky next time for Barcelona cuz they really showed the cunts how football is played.
And I really liked when Messi owned Ronaldo haha legend but wait Messi owned nearly all Man Utd players lmao

Messi was great tonight but once again Man United's defence was resillient. They defended brilliantly. Barca didn't have the cutting edghe tonight and never really looked like scoring. I thought a draw would've been a fair result as Barca started brightly. Thoughts??

Messi is an absolute legend and will only get better with his age, he's only very young and will be superb, If he does go to Chelsea along with Kaka it will be some team..

Back to the game, Barca were unlucky towards the end, but Man united's defence was strong towards the end..

Another thing i though from the game was that apart from Toure, Abidal and Messi most of the others were lacking in confidence like they weren't up for it.

Toure was great tonight again and Barca have a complete team. Ronaldo wasn't at his best again but considering they were without Rooney and Vidic they done fantastically well!